Harry Drinkwater was born in 1919 in Napa
Valley\, CA. Based in Venice Beach for over sixty years\, Harry Drinkwater
was the official photographer for Noah Purifoy’s 1966 group exhibition 6
6 Signs of Neon. A graduate of the Fred Archer School of Photography\,
Drinkwater’s stylized work belongs to a postwar scene linked not only to Lo
s Angeles’ African American community\, but also to the city’s broader jazz
\, beatnik\, and mid-century design movements.

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Bruce W. Tala
mon is a Los Angeles-based photographer working in advertising and publ
icity for feature film projects. He especially enjoys the problem solving i
nvolved in capturing action sequences and has a reputation for always comin
g back with the shot. But before movies\, he was documenting musicians and
artists. In the early 1970s he met David Hammons. David invited him to docu
ment his work and never asked him to put his camera down. That first visit
and collaboration resulted in a forty-year friendship that\, no matter how
long the time apart always immediately picks up from where they left off. <
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Roberts &amp\; Tilton is a Participating Galle
ry of Pacific Standard Time. This unprecedented collaboration\, init
iated by the Getty\, brings together more than sixty cultural institutions
from across Southern California for six months beginning October 2011 to te
ll the story of the birth of the L.A. art scene. For further details\, ple
ase visit pacificstandardtime.org